Improved rollers for wringing-machines



""`s.jlA`. BAILEY, OFNEW LONDON CONNECTICUT' ``z|`ii/ifrntbvi-:D ROLLERS Fou wRiNGlNe-MACHINES.

`Speciiieatimifrming part of Letters Patent No.` 35,663, dated June 24, 1862.

To @ZZ whom/Uit may concern.-

Be itf'known that I, S. A. BAILEY, of New` nLondon, Connecticut, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cylinders for wringing-Machines; and I dohereby declare that the ibilowing is a full,`j clear,` and exact descriptionof the same, reference being hadto the`aceo'mpanyingdrawiugs, and to the letters ofI reference `markedthereon.

`In the annexeddrawiugs, making partofthis specification, QAzrepresents a square wroughtiron shaft, "whichhas slipped over it at each end a cast-iron sleeve, D." The outerends of the sleevesansweryas journalsorbearings for mesma. f 1 1` y `B represents auwooden cylinder, which is passed over the shaitA` before the sleeves are put on. The hollowof thiscylinder is made larger than thediameter of the shaft, as is` shown in.Figuref2."` `Slotsorfpenings are madelongitudinally of this cylinder, commenc- `i ing nearone eudfand` ending about the same distance `from theother end. When these openingsarecut; aseries of spring-'slats are thus formed, whichjyield readily at their eenterswhenlpressure is put upon them.l These openingsandithelspace between the cylinder and the shaft arejlled with indiarubber. The outside 1of the ffcylinder is also Vcovered with rubber. i lThe rubber is wrapped around the cylinder and thensubniitted to heat enough tofuse it and run it` in mass around the shaft and cylinder and intheinterstices or openings j in thecylinder. l y y It will `be liteadil` Hperceived that-when the rubber is putoninthis way there is rubber between lthe :slats and the shaft to support. them," and that the outside rubber and the inside rubber are connected through theopenings, as at a a, Fig. 2. The inner ends of the 4sleeves D D fit in the ends of the cylinder B,

and lugs in the collar e upon said sleeves fit in notches cut in the ends ofthe cylinder, and thus prevent its turning upon the shaft. The object of this arrangement and construction is to make anelastic rubberfcylinder for Wringing-,machines in such` a way that the rubber will not turn and become displaced when heavy pressure is put uponit in using the machines in washingaud wringingclothes.

I'donot confine myself to asquare shaft, nor to a sleeve with a square hole through it to fit upon said shaft, as I may use a round shaft .and secure the sleeve up'on it in any of the well-known ways.

i I may use, instead of a cylinder and shaft, siniplya pipe of metal withopenings through it, .asin the wooden cylinder here used, and then iillitand its intersiiees with rubber in them-adder hereinset forth.

Having thus fully-described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,

L The employment ofthe wooden or metal `cylinder B, constructed in Jthe manner and used for the purpose specified.

`2. The useof the rubber packing between lthe slats of the rcylinder and the shalt A ior the purpose of supporting said slats, as is herein fully set forth.

3. Connecting `the external rubber with the rubber between the slats and the shaft through the intersiices or openings in .thecylinden substantially as and for the purpose specified.

- S. A. BAILEY.

Wi tn esses v:

C. M. ALEXANDER, CHARLES ALEXANDER. 

